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Show MLC TETShatter sehttnd Ui soweeeeOlen RPE Rh, Plate tieieta tee bey With from this archive a committee is filed another of the Territorial which is a report Deputation, ap- pointed to investigate and report upon a petition filed with the Deputation by the Indians of Pecos asking that the Mexican settlers on the Pecos river be required to vacate and restore to the Indians the lands which they have taken. Date, 1825. Pino [rubric] Arze [rubric] Baca [rubric] The name of this pueblo was Cicuye, which was probably the Tigua name for it. tration of Onate that It was during the adminis- a mission was first established at Pecos. Pecos was the Keresan name of the pueblo. In the Sixteenth century they occupied several pueblos in and adjacent to the Pecos river beginning at a point near the present Pecos town and possibly as La Cuesta. extending as far down the river It is claimed also that they had September 25th, Signed DoMINGO JIRONZA PETRIZ DE CRUZATE. BARTOLOME DE OJEDA. Before Don Pepro LapRON DE GUITARA, Secretary of Government and War. The text of this archive is practically the same as that of R. No. A.: The Cochiti were Queres. There are many ruins in the Cafiada de Cochiti. Close is the by celebrated There Viejo. Potrero is a settlement of Mexican people in the cafiada. The title to the lands held by the Mexicans dates 1728, when a grant was made to them by Governor and Captain-General Juan Merced de la — See this grant Domingo de Bustamante. The Catiada de Cochiti —in office of surveyor-general. Mexicans were always troubled by the Navajo until about It was tempothe time of the American Occupation. rarily abandoned in 1835, owing to the Navajo attacks. About a mile below the settlement are found the ruins There is not much left to of the pueblo called Qua-pa. this ruin, and from all indications it is much older than those on the potrero. The Indians claim their that an- cestors moved from Qua-pa to their present village in the valley of the Rio Grande. tors of the Cochiti at one dwellings Frijoles. It is believed that the ancestime lived and occupied the and pueblos in the valley of the Rito de los They were driven out of the fio by the Ere Tehuas. It is my opinion that the Queres of Cochate inhabited Felipe and the cafiada, as did also the Indians of San to that it was from the cafiada that they finally moved have their present village. The oldest men of the pueblo told me this. De Vargas found the Queres of Cochitr of San and of San Felipe and the Tanos of the pueblo they Marcos on the potrero in 1692. They also told him i, This grant to the Pecos Indians was confirmed by Congress long after every Indian had left the pueblo. It is now the property of D. C. Collier, who has given the Archaeological School at Santa Fe a deed to the site of the old pueblo and church. Captain-General otre to the by Governor ae a the Indians at El Paso. and Jironza Petriz de Cruzate, Pr they in turn traded with Domingo COCHITI. Made oP ee ur hides, which west. Don DE 1689. LP Sol oP ta et buffalo hides with the Pueblos living farther south and west. The Pecos also bartered with the plains Indians for Grant. nt iP east, but their origin was in the north; they spoke the same language as the Jemez and were their kinsmen. Harrington says they were not. The Pecos Indians were buffalo hunters and traded their No. R. G@ PUEBLO Lo Paro country; a pueblo near the old Spanish town of Golden, in Santa Fe county. The old ruins near Ojo de Vaca have not been certainly identified as having been occupied by these Indians, although living in such close proximity. ie in the 469 Bh remain they must leave or fight; Governor Otermin determined to fight and began the engagement which lasted all day and resulted in favor of the Spaniards. The Pecos Indians say that they came from the south- CREO eS 2 Se oe Sy CPt Bes ee ly wish eletotis etetTRE alsbe t hershey a hg Te longer . ® Pe) no k ® J Pee TRE Sor mers mae Yes eePies ? 2 oe ara) oe ee | t+ ee rere Le oe oe LAPP Pe Rt Retottates stat totettetiseltAake aeePe POP atta eit could at eee they a REI THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO in a funeral sermon delivered in the City of Mexico one year after the revolt. Four days after the revolt commenced the Spaniards ascertained that five hundred of the Pecos and other eastern Pueblos were on their way to Santa Fe; on the 15th of August, 1680, these Indians were seen in the ‘‘milpas’’ of San Miguel, in the neighborhood of the chapel of that name, in the present City of Santa Fe. One of the Indians, Juan, entered the city and told the Spaniards eT ere ee Ree ET $78 -0>6-4>46-454-0 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO Taree Le 2 468 c SB SHEET CTO Sts OF 7 8 SF Sa ya Tae |
